Improvement in boots



E. F. BICKFORD.

Boots.

No. 196,778. PatentedvNov. .6, I877.

N. PETERS, PHDTO-LITHOGRAPHER. wAsmNew D c NITED SrA'rns PATENT OFFICE.

ERSKINE F. BIOKFORD, OF MALDEN, ASSIGNOR' TO BOSTON RUBBER SHOE COMPANY,OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,778, dated November6, 1877; application filed August 21, 1877.

, To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERSKINE F. BICKFORD, of Malden, of the county ofMiddlesexand State of I Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Boots; and do hereby declare the same to be described inthe following specification and represented in the accompanyingdrawings, of which Figure 1 is a top View, and Fig. 2 a side view, of aboot with my improvement. Fig.

3 is a transverse section of one of the pullingloops and the part of theboot-leg to which it is fixed.

This invention consists of a rubber boot provided with a roundedstanding loop, in form like that of a common staple, and having the endsthereof made flat or wedge-shaped, said ends extending downward betweenthe inner and outer layers of-the boot, and each independently securedtherein by cement or other suitable means, said loop being constructedas shown, and substantially of the same material as that of the boot.

In the drawings, A denotes the boot, and B B the two pulling-loops, abeing the outer part, and b the lining, of the leg portion.

Each of the pulling-loops projects in part above and in part below theupper edge of the boot-leg, all that portion to be seized by the handbeing above the leg, and arched and otherwise arranged therewith, asrepresented. The end parts of each loop do not lap on each other asthose of boot-loops usually do, but they are extended apart, and each issecured in place independently of the other, the loopopening rangingtransversely of the leg.

The aforesaid new arrangement of the loops, and making each so that itshall be still enough to stand erect and maintain its upright positionwhile in use, enables the boot to be seized and drawn on the leg withgreatfacility.

I claim As an improved article of manufacture, a rubber boot providedwith a rounded standing loop, of substantially the same material as theboot, said loop being made in the shape of a staple, and having its endsflattened and cemented, or otherwise suitably secured, be tween theinner and outer layers of saidboot, substantially as and for the purposeherein set forth.

ERSKINE F. BIGKFORD.

Witnesses: I

R. H. EDDY, JOHN R. SNow.

